Shenmue (Dreamcast XBox One) Yu Suzuki's Hubris Confirmed: Part 1
1I purchased Shenmue when it launched on the Dreamcast. I was flummoxed by how tedious and unpolished it was. The dialogue was awful, the spoken English audio was poorly recorded and performed. The “gameplay” involved a lot of traversal between narrative triggers, featuring conversations with the godawful audio and script I mentioned.
Most of the interactions outside of conversation and traversal involved those infamous “Quick Time Events”, where the objective was “Press X to Not Die”. Flashcard gaming.
Because most of the gameplay loop was based on keeping appointments with NPCs and travelling between them, the game’s “realtime” simulated clock was integral to your progress. So you sometimes had to kill time doing other tedious stuff until your appointment was ready to advance the game.
The only “fun” to be had was going to a virtual arcade and playing poorly emulated versions of bad Sega games like Space Harrier.
After several hours of looking for ANYTHING compelling to do, I gave up. As a big fan of JRPGs, I could not have been more disappointed.
XBox One games played offline (installed from the disc; no Internet connection required):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6fa9TXHnIAoleBaTeiTRlA/search?query=xb1
NES Classic games played on original hardware and the NES Classic Mini:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdMQF6K4ZBXMaPO0pCTwJwPalw-rOq8tc
SNES Classic games played on original hardware and the SNES Classic Mini:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGf_v9CgybQ&list=PLdMQF6K4ZBXN2OBhDGU0rYkjd_VlFDA1E
My collection of videos from Sega Genesis and Megadrive games, from the Genesis Mini and other official collections:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdMQF6K4ZBXN8RUdo0HoYsJJ6V_9PRfLO
My videos from the TurboGrafx-16 Mini (also known as the PC Engine Mini):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdMQF6K4ZBXMYcqrL4sukUxba6ax1VgKh
60 fps HD content captured via HDMI with the AverMedia Portable Plus 2:
https://www.amazon.com/AVerMedia-Portable-Pass-Through-Playstation-GC513/dp/B0763TFZWT
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